- Age ain't nothing but a number, Black women explore midlife, edited by Carleen Brice
- The Crisis reader, stories, poetry, and essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine, Sondra Kathryn Wilson, editor
- Brother to brother, new writings by Black gay men, edited by Essex Hemphill ; conceived by Joseph Fairchild Beam ; project managed by Dorothy Beam
- A darker wilderness, Black nature writing from soil to stars, edited by Erin Sharkey
- The Echoing Ida collection, edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, Janna A. Zinzi ; foreword by Michelle Duster
- The word, Black writers talk about the transformative power of reading and writing : interviews, edited and with an introduction by Marita Golden
- Children of promise, African-American literature and art for young people, edited by Charles Sullivan
- A treasury of African American Christmas stories, compiled and edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas
- Mouths of rain, an anthology of Black lesbian thought, edited by Briona Simone Jones
- Mighty real, an anthology of African American same gender loving writing, edited by R. Bryant Smith & Darius Omar Williams
- Knowing him by heart, African Americans on Abraham Lincoln, edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman
- The source of self-regard, selected essays, speeches, and meditations, Toni Morrison
- My soul has grown deep, classics of early African-American literature, John Edgar Wideman
- The Opportunity reader, stories, poetry, and essays from the Urban League's Opportunity magazine, Sondra Kathryn Wilson, editor
- Gumbo, a celebration of African American writing, edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris
- Singers of daybreak ;, studies in Black American literature, [by] Houston A. Baker, Jr
- A treasury of African American Christmas stories, compiled and edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas
- A Study Guide for Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
- Black silk, a collection of African American erotica, edited by Retha Powers
- Albert Murray, collected novels & poems, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Paul Devlin, editors
- Black fire this time, Dr. Kim McMillon, editor ; Kofi Antwi, asst. editor ; foreword by Ishmael Reed ; introduction by Dr. Margo Natalie Crawford, Volume 1
- Soon, one morning ;, new writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962, Selected and edited, with an introd. and biographical notes, by Herbert Hill
- Letters to the future, black women, radical writing, edited by Erica Hunt & Dawn Lundy Martin
- In the life, a black gay anthology, edited by Joseph Beam ; new introduction by James Earl Hardy